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...France - Airbus flew its electric plane across the EnglishChannel for the first time Friday - hours after an independent...Bleriot was the first person to fly a plane across the EnglishChannel.Safety was of secondary priority for Bleriot - he...

...legs were amputated is attempting to swim across the EnglishChannel using leg prostheses that have flippers attached...set off from Folkestone on the British side of the EnglishChannel and is expected to reach the French coastline early...

...rail passenger services between Britain and France were suspended after smoke was detected in the tunnel beneath the Englishchannel. Tunnel operator Eurotunnel said in a statement that a C02 alarm went off just before midday and that it was investigating...

...said 65-year-old Marine Dupont, visiting with her husband from the northern French city of Calais along the EnglishChannel. "They're not going to commit a second attack straight away. On the contrary, I think we're even safer right...

...counterpart, Gen. Pierre de Villiers. The two men were visiting an American military cemetery in Normandy, on the EnglishChannel, when the French strike took place.Dempsey, who was told of the attack by de Villiers, praised the French action...

...them next.2. EGYPT SENTENCES JOURNALISTS TO 7 YEARS IN PRISONThe three reporters who work for Al-Jazeera's Englishchannel are convicted of terrorism-related charges in a case that drew criticism of the state of media freedom in the Arab...

...finally offered to take him in an ambulance across the EnglishChannel on Wednesday, the final hurdle keeping him from his...ferry company took Chenais and his family across the EnglishChannel late Wednesday to Calais. From there, the family...

...among cycling-crazed British fans. Riders hopped on planes and bid "au revoir" to the UK before flying across the EnglishChannel onto the race's home turf.Rain in the City of London doused riders at the end of the 155-kilometer (96-mile...

...time he climbed down the troop ship's cargo net to a landing craft that was violently bouncing in the waves of the EnglishChannel.Bennett, who would graduate from Texas Tech after the war, was part of a unit that had been assigned to take the...

...17-by-9-foot battle flag was raised on its mast June 5, as 156,000 Allied soldiers prepared to cross the EnglishChannel and face the Germans. The USS Texas, which already had fought in World War I, was tasked with drawing enemy fire...